The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

For scrapers that not just implementing HTTP, but are trying to extract zip files, you can possibly drive them insane with zip quines: https://github.com/ruvmello/zip-quine-generator or otherwise compressed files that contain themselves at some level of nesting, possibly with other data so that they recursively expand to an unbounded ("infinite") size.

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